Thanks for the kind words, Faith.
In regards to your question, the ideas of drift versus desire are heavily rooted in the concepts of Buddhism and attachment, and Taoism and harmony. With desire, you’re setting an attachment to an expectation, a mental story that says: “I want the universe to work this way, and if it doesn’t that would upset me.” Sometimes you can get away with this, because the universe actually does turn out in your favor. But more often than not, you’re bound to find your health, relationships, career and hopes going in directions you’re not happy about. Having already built your life story around this expectation, you feel cognitive dissonance and an ego-shattering sense of loss as things fall apart without that expectation to hold them up.
But with drift, you’re not anchored/attached to the expectation. Instead, you’re reading the currents of reality, paying close attention to what is likely to unfold if you didn’t try to force or resist it. Instead, you just align with it as the pragmatic reality of the situation. This would put you in harmony with the Tao. And being in harmony with this naturally unfolding of things, you tend to drift in a way that imparts less burden upon you, less stress, less to complain about. You can still nudge and set intention, but you’re not so attached to the outcome that you’re world falls apart when it doesn’t come true.
